O Wintry Song of Agony

[wmasters]

Hi guys,

My group is soon going to reach O Wintry song of Agony, and I'm hitting a slight snag - they failed to recover the coded book. That's with Leska now (or possibly Kreven).

I can another route to give them information on the Scourge, using divinations and information from Plius, for example but equally I don't want their failure to be without consequence. Does anyone have any bright ideas on how this could affect things? Not letting them find out about the obelisk is another possiblity, but may be damning for the end of the campaign if they don't have a chance to destroy it.

Thanks

[RangerWickett]

You could just make it so that, since the resistance doesn't know about the Obelisk, Kreven has more time to get it operational. Y'know, a "fully armed and operational battle station" and all that. Maybe have some allies they're fond of get wiped out by an initial attack by the Obelisk, so the PCs have to go in with fewer reinforcements.